begin quoting MattyJ as of Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:27:19PM -0700: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:18:28 -0700, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:15:42PM -0700, Druppy wrote: > > > >>Everything else is either a Mac or a gaming box (windows). Does the > >>linux machine do what I need it to? Sure, it's a server, it sits there > >>and it runs year in and year out with the occasional hardware failure. > >>Do I feel like fighting with a desktop machine to do my browsing / > >>email / etc? Do I feel like not being able to play the latest games? > >>No, so I have a windows machine for that. > > > >See, I had the opposite problem. I got so tired of fighting with windows > >machines just to get basic stuff done, that I got rid of it entirely, and > >ran Linux. > > > >Unfortunately, there is plenty of software out there that doesn't work on > >Linux, so I ended up getting a few Macs, but there is no way I would > >consider running windwos machines. They are just too nightmarish to > >maintain and administer. > > Typical conversation in my home six months ago, all Linux, all the time: > > Wife: How come when I click on this restaurant menu Firefox crashes? > Me: You see, Flash is a proprietary application, and version 8.0 > pre-beta-build 153 does not support complex wireframes ... > Wife: How come when I click on this restaurant menu Firefox crashes? > Me: You see, Microsoft is evil and ... > Wife: How come when I click on ...? > > Typical conversation in my home today: > > Wife: Thank you for buying me a Mac. I love you. > Me: I love you too, honey.
ROFL -- Then again, I don't patronize businesses that are hostile to me. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
